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bulletin form. Twenty -two farmers in the county kept complete cost 

 accounts, and all except two of these accounts are completed for the }'ear. 

 The figures on the cost of crop production from these cost accounts will 

 be published later in bulletin form. 



The main work of the farm bureau during the past year has been the 

 taking of farm records. A system of survey schools has been started 

 to luring to the fanners of the county information obtained from survey 

 work. These schools are arousing much interest among the farmers, 

 and wc believe they give the farmers a better understanding of the factors 

 that make for success in farming in the county. These meetings are 

 held in cooperation with the county granges. 



M. E. Chubbuck, 

 Farm Bureau Manager oj Chemung County. 



CLINTON COUNTY 



It is very gratifying to be able to report at this time that there is an 

 increasing interest in the farm bureau work in Clinton County. Farmers 

 now know that the calls are made not to tell them how to farm or to criti- 

 cise their methods unduly, but simply to cooperate with them, to help 

 them study out any difficulty they may have, to offer suggestions that 

 will lead to better practices in agriculture, and to give them the benefit 

 of valuable and costly experiments by agricultural experts. 



During the past year I have made over seven hundred and fifty farm 

 calls. A large proportion of these calls were made at the request of 

 fanners who had some definite problem that they wished to put before 

 the manager. In addition to these personal visits, thirty-two meetings 

 have been held, at which various subjects were discussed with the farmers. 

 I am inclined to believe that we should have more field meetings this 

 next year. I can see that the ones held this year have accomplished 

 things worth while. 



In addition to answering personal letters for definite information of 

 one sort or another, the bureau has issued six circular letters containing 

 timely information to the members of the agricultural association. 

 Thirteen other circular letters were also sent out to small groups interested 

 in some one thing. Several articles have been prepared and published 

 in the local newspapers. The publishers of these papers have been ever 

 ready to give their hearty support to the bureau. 



Considerable work has been done in orchards in the way of pruning 

 demonstrations, aid in setting new orchards, rejuvenating old orchards, 

 spraying', grading fi-uit, and the Hke. 



Owing to the success that was obtained from the treatment of seed 

 oats for smut in the year 19 13, no difficulty was experienced in getting 

 many farmers interested in this work this last season. It is difficult to 

 say just how much seed oats was treated for smut this last spring, but 

 I am certain that several hundred acres were sown with seed free from 

 the fungus that causes smut. When we stop to consider that in some fields 

 as high as a third or even a half of the crop this last year was destroyed 

 by smut, we can readily see that this work is something that should be 

 pushed even h9.rder this next season. 



